Bit

Definition

bit 1 /bÇt/ n ၁။ (က) [C] ေသးငယ္ေသာပမာဏ။ အစအန။ အပိုင္းအစ။ bits of bread/cheese/paper ❍ a bit of advice/help/luck/news ❍ I've got a bit of (ie some) shopping to do. (ခ) [sing] a ~ (of sth) ( infml often ironic ) ႀကီးမားေသာပမာဏ၊ အတိုင္း အတာ။ ‘How much money has he got in the bank?’ ‘A fair bit. ’ ❍ It took quite a bit of effort to paint the whole of the house. ❍ This novel will take a bit of reading (ie a long time to read). ၂။ [C] ( US sl ) (usu pl and in phrases) ၁၂ ၁ /၂ ဆင့္။ two bits or a quarter (of a dollar). See also THREEPENNY BIT ၃။ [sing] ( sl ) လုပ္နည္းလုပ္ဟန္။ ေတြးနည္းေတြးဟန္။ အထာ။ အခ်ဳိး။ She couldn't accept the whole drug-culture bit. ❏ a bit [ IDM ] ( esp Brit ) ၁။ အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ ‘Are you tired?’ ‘Yes, I am a bit (tired). ’ ❍ This book costs a bit (too) much. ❍ These trousers are a bit tight. ၂။ ခဏ။ နည္းနည္း။ တစ္ဆိတ္။ Wait a bit! ❍ Move up a bit. ❏ bit by bit [ IDM ] တစ္စခ်င္း။ တစ္စစီ။ နည္းနည္းခ်င္း။ He assembled the model aircraft bit by bit. ❍ She saved money bit by bit until she had enough to buy a car. ❏ a bit much [ IDM ] ( infml ) နည္းနည္းတရားလြန္သည္။ The noise from the neighbours' party is getting a bit much. ❍ It's a bit much calling me at three o'clock in the morning. ❏ a bit of a [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) နည္းနည္း။ ေတာ္ေတာ္။ ခပ္။ He's a bit of a bully/coward/fool/bore. ❍ The rail strike is a bit of a nuisance. ❏ a bit of all right [ IDM ] ( Brit sl ) အလြန္မိေသာသူ၊ အရာ။ အပ်ံစား။ Dave's new girlfriend is a bit of all right, isn't she? ❏ a bit of crumpet/fluff/skirt/stuff [ IDM ] ( Brit sl sexist ) ေတာ္ေတာ္မွည့္တဲ့ေစာ္။ ❏ bit part n ႐ုပ္ရွင္၊ ျပဇာတ္တြင္ ခဏတစ္ျဖဳတ္ ပါရသည့္ အခန္း။ ျဖတ္ေလွ်ာက္။ ❏ bits and bobs/pieces [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဗူလိနတ္စ။ တိုလီမုတ္စ။ I always have a lot of bits and pieces in my coat pocket. ❏ a bit thick [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) မတရား။ သဘာဝမက်။ It's a bit thick expecting us to work on Sundays. ❏ bitty adj ( Brit usu derog ) (အဆက္အစပ္မရိွဘဲ) ေတာင္ေရာက္ေျမာက္ေရာက္။ a bitty conversation/interview/film ❍ The play is rather bitty. ❏ do one's bit [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ့္တာဝန္ပိုင္း ကိုယ္ေက် ေအာင္ထမ္းေဆာင္။ ကိုယ့္တာ ကိုယ္လံုေအာင္ထိန္း။ We can finish this job on time if everyone does their bit. ❏ every bit as good, bad, etc (as sb/sth) [ IDM ] တမွ်၊ ကဲ့သို႔ပင္၊ လိုပဲ၊ ႏွင့္တစ္ထပ္တည္း (ဆိုးသည္၊ ေကာင္းသည္ စသည္)။ Rome is every bit as beautiful as Paris. ❍ He's every bit as clever as she is. ❏ not a bit; not one (little) bit [ IDM ] နည္းနည္းမွ်။ တစ္ဆိတ္မွ်။ တစ္စက္(ကေလး)မွ်။ ‘Are you cold?’ ‘Not a bit. ’ ❍ It's not a bit of use (ie There's no point in ) complaining. ❍ I don't like that idea one little bit. ❏ not a bit of it! [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) လံုးဝကို မ…ဘူး။ တျခားစီပဲ။ You'd think she'd be tired after such a long journey, but not a bit of it! ❏ to bits [ IDM ] အစိတ္စိတ္အႁမႊာႁမႊာ။ တစ္စစီ။ pull/tear sth to bits ❍ The parchment came/fell to bits in my hands. bit 2 /bÇt/ n ၁။ (ျမင္း၏) ဇက္သြား။ ❍ harness ၂။ (က) (လွည့္ ေပးရေသာ ျဖတ္၊ ညႇပ္ကိရိယာမ်ဳိး၏) အသြား၊ ႏႈတ္သီး။ (ခ) လြန္။ လြန္သြား။ See also DRILL 1 ❏ get/take the bit between one's/the teeth [ IDM ] အခက္အခဲကို အံခဲ၍ရင္ဆိုင္သည္။ bit 3 /bÇt/ n ( computing ) ကြန္ပ်ဴတာသံုး အေသးဆံုး အခ်က္အလက္ ယူနစ္။ bit 4 pt of BITE

Examples

1. I’m having some cake. Do you want a bit?
2. [bit of] : He had bits of food stuck in between his teeth.
3. [bits and pieces] : The wreckage was spread over a wide area in tiny bits and pieces.
4. The best bit in the film is the scene in the restaurant.
5. [bit of] : Some bits of the jigsaw are missing.
6. In general
7. I like my job
8. but I don’t enjoy the management bit.
9. Two bits